Process of wrapping articles.



C. C. MILLER.

PROCESS OF WRAPPING ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. I3, 1915.

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CHARLES C. MILLER, 0F FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

PROCESS OF WRAPPING ARTICLES.

Application filed 3anuary 13, 1915. Serial No. 1,962.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. MILLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and State of Indiana,have invented new and useful Improvements in Processes of WrappingArticles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to the packaging of laundried and other articlesfor delivery purposes. An item of large expense in every laundry is thatnecessitated by the wrapping up of the laundried articles for thedelivery thereof. It is essential that the contents of the package shallbe protected from crushing or distortion or injury while beingdelivered. The method universallyin vogue heretofore is that of firstinserting each shirt into a stiff wrapper or inserting a piece ofcard-board into the shirt to protect the same. The shirts and otherarticles are then wrapped in a sheet of paper and tied up with twine orthey are inserted in a paper box. A considerable amount of time isthereby consumed in preparing each customers laundry for delivery.

The object of my invention is to provide a novel method of packingarticles in a bag or similar receptacle having but one end open togetherwith a reinforcement for the bag by which the collapse of the same isprevented and the contents are protected. I have found that areinforcement formed from a strip of card-board or other suitablematerial into a continuous band which, when in the bag, will abut itssides and bottom and extend across the top of the bag, provides a verysatisfactory means of protection for the laundry. It is an easy matterto insert the reinforcement into the bag, but since one of its endsextends across the top of the bag the laundry cannot be inserted withouttearing the bag or providing a bag which is so large that thereinforcement is of little or no benefit. I overcome this difiiculty byinserting the laundry and reinforcement into the bag at one operation,by placing the reinforcement on a tray which is fixed, as to a table,then placing the laundry on the scoop and within the reinforcement. thendrawing the bag over the scoop and reinforcement and laundry, thenremoving the bag with the reinforce ment and laundry within it from thetray,

then folding the mouth of the bag over the Specification of LettersPatent.

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top end of the reinforcement and sealing it, as with an adhesive tape.

In the drawings I illustrate one manner n which my invention may becarried out in practice, in which Figure l is a plan view of. the trayand reinforcement with a bag partly drawn over them, Fig. 2 a sideelevation of the same; F g. 3 a view in perspective of the tray and Fig.4 a view, in perspective of the completed package removed from the trayand ready for delivery.

Referring to the drawings, 10 is the tray having a rib 11 on its lowerside which extends across the same and which serves to elevate the trayabove the surface of the table 12. A" flange 13 depends from the closedend 14 of the tray which is adapted to be attached to table 12 or othersuitable support by screws or by thumb screws 15.

able shape to correspond to the shape of the bag intendedto be used. Atsuitable points near the forward ends of the sides of the tray thosesides are preferably increased in height to insure the passage of themouth of the bag over the reinforcement and laundry placed within thereinforcement. The bag may be provided at its mouth with an adhesivetape 18 which, when the mouth is closed by folding the same over the topend of reinforcement 16, moistening the gummed tape and pressing it ontothe adjacent parts of the bag.

' When the customer receives the package he merely has to break the tapeand withdraw the reinforcement and laundry from the bag. He may thenhang up the bag by engaging a'hook or nail in aperture 19 in the bag,and he may then place his soiled linen in the bag from day to day anddeliver it to the laundry representative who then has aconvenient meansfor returning thelinen to the laundry. The bag being of cheap. materialit. is thrown away on its return to the laundry, consequently itprovides a sanitary receptaclefor the custom ers linen as well as ameans of protection for the laundried linen.

The time consumed in carrying on my method is very much less than thatrequired in wrapping the laundry in paper or in paper boxes. Paper boxesare supplied in knock-down form and must be assembled before the laundrycan be inserted." All this requires time as well as storage space; Theboxes are very apt to become dusty in storage and the operator is apt tosoil her hands in assembling them so that the linen is thereupon soiledand requires relaundrying. My invention obviates all these difficulties.1 I

What I claim is: I

The method of wrapping articles in bags which consists in depositing arim for reinforcing the bag upona charging tray; then

